Leaving Russia

A Jewish Story

By:

Maxim D. Shrayer

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Library of Modern Jewish Literature

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A memoir of coming of age and struggling to leave the USSR. Shrayer chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a Soviet childhood and expresses the dreams and fears of a Jewish family that never gave up its hopes for a better life. Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy's confessional trilogy and Nabokov's autobiography, this is a searing account of the KGB's persecution of refuseniks, a poet's rebellion against totalitarian culture, and Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War.

Author Biography:

Born in Moscow in 1967 in a writer's family, Maxim D. Shrayer is a professor at Boston College and a bilingual writer and translator. Shrayer has authored over ten books, among them, the memoir Waiting for America, the story collection Yam Kippur in Amsterdam, and the Holocaust study I Saw It. Shrayer's Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature won a 2007 National Jewish Book Award, and in 2012, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife and two daughters. Visit Shrayer's website at www.shrayer.com.

Release date NZ

January 30th, 2017

Author

Maxim D. Shrayer

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

43 black & white illustrations, 1 map

Pages

346

Series

Library of Modern Jewish Literature

Dimensions

152x229x22

ISBN-13

9780815610885

Product ID

26489024

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